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Sandra bought 120 square feet of carpet for a room in her new house. If the room is square, what is the length of each side of the room?

Recall that the area of a square is calculated by l2, where l is the length of one side.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
l^2 = 120, so l = sqrt(120) = sqrt(4·30) = 2√30 ≈ 10.954 ft.

Thus each side is 2√30 feet (about 10.95 feet).